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Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference
Maurice Freedman,Fredrik Barth +1 more
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Is race a ‘salient…’ or ‘dominant identity’ in the early 21st century: The evidence of UK survey data on respondents’ sense of who they are
Peter J. Aspinall,Miri Song +1 more
TL;DR: In Britain race appears to have been undermined by the rise of 'Muslim' identity, the increasing importance of 'mixed race', and the fragmentation of identity now increasingly interwoven with other attributes like religion.
The ecology of language planning in Timor-Leste
TL;DR: It is argued that active management of the language ecology will protect and promote multilingualism in Timor-Leste by allowing space for all languages in the system and that a model of additive mult bilingualism offers the best chance of an inclusive and accommodating language policy.
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The social meaning and function of humour in physiotherapy practice: An ethnography
TL;DR: Humour was used as a stabilising force to give the team a sense of certainty juxtaposed by the prevailing unpredictability of their daily activities; it was part of their professional culture to allow them to handle stressful situations and to build up a socialisation process.
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Ethnographic analogy and the reconstruction of early Khoekhoe society
TL;DR: Barnard et al. as mentioned in this paper used the acquisition of livestock by twentieth-century Khoe-speaking hunter-gatherers as an analogy for deciphering similar processess among early Khoekhoe.
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Racial authenticity among second generation youth in multiethnic New York and London
TL;DR: The authors analyzes racial authenticity in the multiethnic context, by showing how second generation teenagers in New York and London evaluate and express racial authenticity among diverse peers, using South Asians in both cities to illustrate the hybrid consumption practices influenced by both.